Dirty Old Town lyrics

I met my love by the gas works hall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling on their beat Spring's a girl in the streets of night Dirty old town, dirty old town I heard a siren from the docks Saw a train set the night on fire Smelled the spring in the smokey wind Dirty old town, dirty old town I'm going to make a good sharp axe Shining steel, tempered in the fire We'll chop you down like an old dead tree Dirty old town, dirty old town I met my love by the gas works hall Dreamed a dream by the old canal Kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Dirty old town, dirty old town (c) Ewan McColl